Shield



H. L. SMITH.

SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4. I921.

Patented June 13, 11922.

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H. L. SMITH.

SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-4.19M.

Pmvemedl Jane B, 1922.

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HENRY L'UND SMITH, Q15 PATERSGN, NEW JERSEY.

SHIELD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June as, teen 4 Application filed February a, 1921. seriarno. 442,443.

ber 411,724 and the other the Serial Number 440,866. The device herein shown and described is designed to provide a simpler and less expensive and yetsubstantially as strong and durable a structure as that explained by way of example in the first of my two applications above named.

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Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved shield showing the same attached to a wind shield; I I Figure 2 is a side elevation, the wind shield being shown in section on the line 22 in Figure 1;

Figure 3 shows a modified form of the device in side elevation" and attached to a wind shield, which appears in vertical section; 1

Figure 4: is a sectional View on the line l4 of Figure 3; and

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional -Vle W of the device shown in Figure 3'.

The shield proper herein shown is of the inclined-vane type; In Figures 1 and 2 there are a plurality of upright holder members a, preferably three, equidistantly spaced from each other and having narrow inclined pockets 1) formed therein one above another, the pockets in this instance extending inward from one edge of each holder member. The vanes 0 are fitted into these pockets so i as to make a rigid substantial structure.

In Figures 3 and 5 the construction is much the same excepting that the holder members a have the pockets 6' in the form of elongated holes or slots, the ends of the vanes 0' being reduced to fit such pockets, In both forms thereis also a vane a) which is fitted into pockets e in the holder'members at the ends thereof so as to stand in a plane at: an angle to that of any one of the vanes c or 0', or substantially parallel with the. length of the holder members. The front of the shield is that corresponding to the loweredges of the vanes c or a, and the plane in which vane (2 lies is preferably ofiset toward the front or .back of the shield proper according'to whether the latter is to be at- I tached to its supporting upright (to be .described) back of or in front of the same (compare Figures 2 and 3). The present device is intended principally though not indispensably as means to protect the eyes of the driver of a road vehicle at night from the glare of the lights of an approaching vehicle, and to this end the vanes c or 0 are translucent, the intervening spaces affording clear-vision areas; the vane ol is also preferably translucent and is supported when used to be in about horizontal alinement with the drivers eyes, so that his distant vision is usually therethrough, and in the present case it forms means for attachment of the shield proper to its supporting upright.-

Said upright is indicated 1 at f, being a tube with a knob g on its lower end. Telescoped into 'it is a stem h which dependsfrom and is preferably pivoted at i to a suitable clip j which is in turn secured to the wind-shield or some other fixed part 1'' of thewehicle.

A split clamp 76 islseeured with its flat face Z against the vane d by screws m, the split portion of the clamp embracing the upper end portion of the tubular upright f,

which is also split, as at n, and having a binding screw'o; when the screw 0 is properly adjusted it not only secures the upper portion of the shield to the upright but may bind the latter with suficient friction to the stem so that by means of the knob g the upright carrying the shield may at will be adjusted longitudinally'of the stem but the upright will retain the position to which it is thus adjusted.

To secure the lower end portion of the shield to the ;upri ht I provide a hook p which is penetrate by the upright and has its hook-portion hooked over one of the vanes 0 or 0', as the lower one. It will strengthenthe structure if this hook is bifurcated, as shown, and made to straddle the center holder membera. ora, opposite which the upright is arranged.

If the shield proper is placed forward of the upright the clamp is will be secured to the rear face of vane a1; if the shield proper is placed back of the upright said clamp will be secured to the front face of the vane d.

The materialof the shield proper, and

particularly the vanes, may be glass; but I prefer that it be celluloid or some other infrangible material, in which case the described arrangement and construction of the parts will be such as toproduce a structure that is strong and durable and well adapted to, withstand the efi'eots of the handling to which the device is supposed to be subjected, as in adjusting longitudinally of the stem member or on the pivot 2'.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In. combination, with a shield including shielding vanes rigidly held in planes at an angle to each other, an upright, and means to secure the shield to the upright with one vane substantially parallel therewith, said means engaging the latter vane.

2. In combination, with a shield including shielding vanes rigidly held in planes at an angle to each other, an upright, andseparate means to secure-the shield to the upright with one vane substantially parallel therewith, one of said means engaging the latter vane and the other the other vane.

3. In combination, with a shield including shielding vanes rigidly held in planes at an angle to each other, an upright, and means to secure the shield to the upright with one vane substantially parallel therewith including a clamp, fixed to the latter vane and clamping the upright,

4. In combination, with a shield including shielding vanes rigidly held in planes at an angle to each other, an upright, and means to secure the shield to the upright with one vane substantially parallel therewith including a hook extending from the upright and hooked around the other vane.

5. In combination, with a shield including shielding vanes and a holding member in which they are rigidly held at an angle to each other, an uprlght, and means to secure the shield to the upright with one vane substantially parallel therewith including a hook extending from the upright and straddling the holder member and hooked around the other vane.

' 6. In combination, a supporting stem, an

upright having a contractible portion embracing the stem, a structure to be supported, and an adjustable clamp carrying said structure and embracing said contractible portion and holding the same in gripping relation to the stem.

In testimony whereof I afiix my si ature.

HENRY LUND S- ITH. 

